Maya Angelou Quotes
There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
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Actors are a race.
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I have no idea what goes on in another person's mind. As a legislator, I need to be good at persuading people, counting votes and getting to 50 percent plus one. I don't go back and say, 'Why did this person get to the right position?' It's only, 'Are you yes or are you no?'
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I've made it abundantly clear that I think that marriage is between a man and a woman.
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You can't get anymore classic than being a part of a Disney animated film. To me, that's something I can have in my back pocket for the rest of my life. I'll be able to show it to my kids. I'll be walking around Disneyland, and it'll be bizarre to shake hands with Rapunzel.
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I'm doing a program with NAFME for music and education in schools, and for a week, we will be getting in a bus and traveling across the United States. We're starting at Disney World and ending at the Grand OIe Opry. We will be performing at different schools, and I wrote a song for the program called 'Always Sing.'
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Expressing myself through language was always something that I had had to learn to do more so than others.
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My favorite part about Mare Barrow is her almost selfish survival instinct, as well as her increasingly gray morality. Her character arc in 'Glass Sword' is a lot deeper and more emotional than before, so I'm glad I got to write this sequel and that people want to read it.
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Everything has to have some kind of a point for people to breathe easy. What's the point of life? I have no clue, but sometimes there are things that just attract us and pull us in a certain way.
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I am here to accept responsibility for that which I did. I will not accept responsibility for that which I did not do.
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Twitter is worth it if you like tweeting. Same is true of Facebook. Or Pinterest. Nothing wrong with having a social presence.
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There are a lot of people who can be classified as heroes and do great things and inspire me.
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'Peace Train' is a song I wrote, the message of which continues to breeze thunderously through the hearts of millions. There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again. As a member of humanity and as a Muslim, this is my contribution to the call for a peaceful solution.
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I like surprising myself. I don't want to do the norm, do what I'm always known to do, write how I like to write.
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The major parties could conduct live human sacrifices on their podiums during prime time, and I doubt that anybody would notice.
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I don't ever want to bring a child into this world without being as healthy as I can be; it's as simple as that.
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Many openly show discontentment with their looks, but few with their intelligence. I, however, assure you there are many more plain minds than faces.
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On a very basic, concrete level, there have been times when my work, regardless of the content, has harmed relationships because I made that work such a primary priority in my life.
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I love getting dressed up in a suit because I don't do it all the time.
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We're moving from a generation who gave little thought as to the built environment and accepted housing that was neither pleasant to look at, nor to live in or around, to a new century where there's a real desire for housing that's affordable, flexible, and places community at the heart of its thinking. For architects and the public it's an enticing prospect.
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Any game where a man 60 can beat a man 30 ain't no game.
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All men contain several men inside them, and most of us bounce from one self to another without ever knowing who we are.
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You're believing for more and so through the years God has honored that.
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There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
